17th Dec 2010

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Yahoo! announced they’re shutting down Delicious

Bad news from Yahoo!.. it’s now trending on Twitter: Yahoo! decided to shut down the social bookmarking site par excellence, Delicious. Even though we didn’t get any official announcement from Yahoo!, Techcrunch has confirmed the…

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25th Apr 2010

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A glossary of terms related to social tagging

There are many terms related to –and many times created because of– the social tagging phenomenon. The following is a list of terms that are relevant to social tagging. This list may become larger throughout…

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12th Aug 2009

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Enhancing Navigation on Wikipedia with Social Tags

My paper “Enhancing Navigation on Wikipedia with Social Tags” has been accepted for publication and presentation at Wikimania 2009, the 5th International Conference of the Wikimedia Foundation to be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from…

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27th Jul 2009

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Getting the Most Out of Social Annotations for Web Page Classification

Our paper “Getting the Most Out of Social Annotations for Web Page Classification” has been accepted for publication and presentation at DocEng 2009, the 9th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering to be held in Munich,…

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7th Jul 2009

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Tagging: People-Powered Metadata for the Social Web

I’ve recently read the book “Tagging: People-Powered Metadata for the Social Web“, by Gene Smith, an interesting overview on the art of tagging. I would recommend it to whomever is interested in discovering what tags…

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19th Jun 2009

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Clasificación de Páginas Web con Anotaciones Sociales

Our paper “Clasificación de Páginas Web con Anotaciones Sociales” has been accepted for publication and presentation at SEPLN 2009, XXV edición del Congreso Anual de la Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural to…

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